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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a second cancer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a new cancer diagnosis that occurs in a person who has previously been diagnosed with cancer.
Example: "After undergoing treatment for breast cancer, she was unfortunately diagnosed with a second cancer, this time in her lungs."
Alternatives: "another cancer" or "a subsequent cancer".
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A follow-up plan to check for a recurrence or the appearance of a second cancer.
Some will face an increased risk of heart or bone problems, or a second cancer.
The graceful but determined manner she fought a second cancer more than ten years later was an example to all.
Then, in 2005, Ms. Schnipper got a second cancer in the same breast.
She had a second cancer, almost certainly caused by a drug that she had not needed in the first place.
As a result, the higher risk for a second cancer does not mean a higher risk of dying.
Besides battling chronic myelogenous leukemia, Gleevec also seems to work in a second cancer known as gastrointestinal stromal tumor or GIST, which is usually incurable when surgery fails.
It compared the histories of 358 women who developed a new cancer in the second breast with 674 women who did not develop a second cancer.
Morgan now plans to delve into the work of a second cancer clinic and is also interested in tackling other alternative medicines and beauty products.
And CLIO-ICT worked even better when given in combination with a second cancer drug, temozolomide, that is already used to treat glioblastoma.
"There are emerging data that suggest common inherited factors together with treatment can influence the risk of developing a second cancer," Chanock says.
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